I have lived Windows free for a while now, with the exception of XP on VirtualBox, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to run some of my favorite Windows utilities in Linux (currently 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04). Lately I've been banging my head against the wall with a Spektrum AR6400 and a 1S brushless ESC, and sure wished that Castle Creations would have a 1S ESC that was compatible with Castle Link, but that's a different story, however it's what led me back to this forum and the thought of running Castle Link in Linux (a little break from my other issue).

To make a long story short, here's how you can get Castle Link, the application, to run in Ubuntu (I'm sure other mainstream & supported Linux distributions will work also).

At this time I wouldn't hold my breath on getting USB to work. There has been a series of USB patches for older Wine versions (1.1.2x and 1.2-rc4), but none are up to date with the latest releases (1.2 and 1.3.1). If CC Link was serial (COM port) based, then most likely it would work.

For now I'm just happy to see a .NET application running under Wine. That was a huge hurdle the developers had to overcome, so big kudos to them for that accomplishment. There are rumors that the current development version of Wine (1.3.x) will have improved USB support, so there is hope on the horizon.

I'll be curious to see if you can get the USB working. Gives me hope that I can do the same on the Mac..
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I am running on Mac with Virtual BOX from Sun. It is open source. I have windows XP on one machine and windows 7 on another. It was easy to do and I actually us w7 for many other things. Like having 2 computers at once.

Just a quick update. I haven't quite given up (at least not yet) on getting USB and Castle Link in particular to work with Wine. Thanks to patches from Alexander Morozov I got Wine 1.3.4 patched, compiled and working (at least not giving any error messages) in a clean Ubuntu 9.10 VBox session, but after banging my head against the wall all day (at least it's raining outside), I am stuck for now on the following error: